Marginal check-cutter



E. TRIMBLE.

MARGINAL CHECK CUTTER. `vwmlcuuum rim) Ams. usm.

Patented June 3, 1919.

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wwx w w EDWARD TRIMBLE, 0F NEAR ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

MARGINAL CHECK-CUTTER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3, 191%).

Application led April 9, 1917. Serial N o. 160,749.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDWARD TRIMBLE a citizen of the United States, residing near St. Joseph, in the county of Andrew and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Marginal Check-Cutters, of which the :following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of marginal cutters, which are used for cutting the margins of bank checks, express and postal money orders, and the like, which carry on their faces what are commonly known as money margins.

The objects of my improvements are, to provide a simple, substantial, durable and elicient cutter of this class, which is detachably attached to the cover of a block of such checks, and which can be folded in said block of checks, for enabling the user of the cutter and checks, to insert the same in his pocket. This provides a check cutter which is always at hand, ready for instant use, and safeguards the same against misplacement or loss. Further objects are, to so construct the cutter and to so arrange the money margins, that checks for all of the various amounts, ranging from a comparatively small sum, to a very large one, are practically safeguarded against having the amounts of said checks raised.

I attain these objects by the devices illustratcd in the accompanying drawings, in which:-

Figure l is a top plan of the cutter and of a block of checks, with the cutter in position for cutting the top margin of the upper one of said block of checks. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, showing the cutter in position for cutting an end margin. Fig. 3 is a vertical section. on the line X X, seen in Fig. Q, looking toward the left. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the cutter, on the line Y Y, seen in Fig. 2.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 3, clamp bar 1 is provided with clamp hooks 2, formed on the ends thereof. Said hooks are slid onto the longitudinal edges of cover 3 for detachably holding said clamp bar in place. Block of checks 4 has stubs 4 formed with said checks in the usual manner. Said checks have the longitudinal money margin 5 formed along the upper edges thereof and transverse margins 5 formed thereon. Said money margins are subdivided by tlie division lines 5". Said block of checks is detachably connected with cover 3, by inserting the bottom one of checks 4 and its attached stub, into pocket 3', (see Fig. 3,) said pocket being formed with said cover in the usual manner.

Referring to Fig. 1, the slide carrying rod 6 is formed with clamp bar 1, at a right angle thereto. Said rod has slide 7 mounted thereon. The free extremity of said rod has enlarged portion 7 formed thereon, for holding said slide against detachment from said rod.

One end of the cutter carrying bar 8 is loosely connected with the slide by pivot 8. The free end of said bar has the inclined cutting edge 8 formed thereon.

Cutting plate 9 has the slot 9 formed therethrough and is slidably secured on said cutter carrying bar by the headed stud 10, lpassed through said slot and secured in said Said cutting plate has the longitudinal cutting edges 9iL and 9b and the inclined transverse cutting edges 9c and 9d formed thereon.

Checks 4 and back 3 are preferably formed of flexible material, for permitting the same to be folded on the dash and dot line Z Z.

In operation, with the parts of the cutter in the position seen in Fig. l, the operator of said cutter with one hand firmly presses bar 8 and plate 9 downward upon checks 4. While so doing he grasps the free transverse edge of the upper one of said checks, and draws the same upward to practically a right angle to cutting edge 9, and continues drawing said check upward, thereby cutting the same against the full length of said cutting edge. raises said check, longitudinally and cuts the same along the edge 9a of plate 10 and the lower edge of the bar 8 and stops at the leftedge of the first column of the transverse money margin 5. He then swings bar 8 on pivot 8 from the position seen in Fig. l, to the position seen in Fig. 2, and slidably moves plate 9 to the position shown. Said operator then cuts said check along the ri ht edge of bar 8 and edges 9d and 9b. T is severs the entire check 4 from stub 4', leaving the desired money designations on the margins of both.

The back surface of the longitudinal money margin 5 may be gummed for en- Said operator then similarly abling the operator to double and adhere the severed portion of the same onto the back of stuh t', to prevent the saine from being separated from said stub.

Stub -i is turned over toward the left disclosing the cheek` next beneath, after which the previously described operations are repeated. ln each operation the inclined edges il@ and 9 are set to eut 0n such division lines 5 as the various amounts of different cheeks may require.

While the money designations in the longitudinal money margin 5 designate amounts ranging from five dollars to ninetyfive dollars and the designations in the transverse money margin 5', indicate from one hundred to thirty hundred dollars, it is evident that various different subdivisions ot' said margins for indicating different amounts than the ones shown could be made, and that har 8 and plate 9 could be differently shaped` to coordinate therewith, Without departing from the spirit, of my invention, which I reserve the right to d0.

Referring to Fig. 2, plate 9 is slid upward, until its upper end is against slide 7, after which back 3 and the therewith Connected cheeks -t are folded on the dash and dot line Z Z.

The cheek book, thus folded, incloses all oi the described Cheek cutter, exeept slide bar and the outer portion of slide T. This places the cheek book and the therein inelosed parts of the cutter in small and eonipart Jform for insertion in the pocket ot the user.

then all ot' cheeks 4 are used, previously described elainp bar 1 and the therewith formed hooks 2, are slid from Cover 3 and another block of checks is connected with the latter, as previously described, and

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the said clamp bar and hooks are returned to the position shown.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

A marginal cheek cutter, comprising, a clamp bnr having elamp hooks formed on the ends thereof for clamping said bar transversely on one end ot the cover ol a cheek book having blank sheets provided with longitudinal and transverse money designating margins; a slide carrying rod formed integrally with one end ot said clamp bar at a right angle thereto said rod being outside ot' and parallel with one ot' the longitudinal edges of said book; a slide mounted on said rod; slide holding means formed on the free extremity of said rod for holding said slide thereon against, detachnient therefrom; a cutting bar having one of its ends pivotally connected with said slide 'for perinittino' said cutting bar to be swung in a horizontal plane; and a cutting plate slidably secured on said cutting har one edge of said plate beingr against the adjacent edge of said cutting bar and its opposite edge extended beyond said bar for adapting said extended edge portion to cover a transverse money designating margin of a cheek, the edges of said cutting bar and of said plate being adapted to eut said longitudinal and transverse money designating margins from a` eheek when the latter is drawn thereagainst.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD TRIMBLE.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. HINTON, LUKE E. HIN'roN,

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D, O. 

